TEHRAN (Realist English). Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has sharply rebuked Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, declaring that Tel Aviv has failed to achieve any of its objectives in the recent confrontation with the Islamic Republic.
In a statement posted on social media, Araghchi mocked Netanyahu’s demand that Iran restrict the range of its missiles to 480 kilometers, calling the suggestion “absurd” and dismissing it as “advice from a war criminal.”
“Netanyahu’s attempts to erase more than 40 years of peaceful nuclear advancement are futile,” Araghchi wrote. “Every one of the Iranian scientists killed by Israeli-backed operatives has trained over a hundred capable successors.”
He accused the Israeli leader of openly attempting to dictate U.S. policy in ongoing nuclear negotiations, despite what he described as a humiliating failure in Israel’s recent military campaign against Iran.
“After failing to meet a single war objective and forced to call on ‘Daddy’ when our precision missiles struck secret Israeli sites—which he still censors—Netanyahu now wants to script U.S. diplomacy,” the minister said.
Tensions escalated sharply after Israel launched a large-scale military operation on June 13, targeting Iranian military commanders, nuclear scientists, and civilians. The U.S. joined the conflict days later, striking Iranian nuclear facilities—an act Tehran denounced as a violation of the UN Charter, international law, and the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).
Iran responded by launching coordinated retaliatory strikes on multiple Israeli positions in the occupied territories and on the U.S. Al-Udeid air base in Qatar, one of Washington’s key military installations in the region.
By June 24, Tehran announced it had successfully halted what it called an “illegal assault” through its counteroffensive, asserting it had reestablished deterrence through a calibrated show of force.
Iranian officials have since intensified diplomatic messaging aimed at framing the war as a strategic failure for both Israel and the United States, while underscoring Iran’s readiness to defend its sovereignty and continue its nuclear program within the framework of international agreements.
